I'm writing this because I'm really astonished by those tight rules. I have an account on StackExchange and on SuperUser, that is common to the StackOverflow platform.

I really don't understand WHY a person cannot take part of the community before making questions that people consider interesting or smart before having the chance to upvote and comment other questions.

In registration phase there are already means for avoiding computers autoregister and spam, so I don't understand the point.

I think these platforms should promote cooperation and crowdsourcing, giving the opportunity also for a person that is a newbie to say "gosh, that answer saved me from tons of headaches, everybody should see how much is important!"

I hope I won't be blamed for this OT, but I think this behaviour is far from the concept of forum and community (and I have to begin to earn reputation, in case things won't change).

Thanks for reading this.